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Its just a website. Were not going to the moon

deal architect

'Time (sub required) has a detailed story on the elite team that rescued the HealthCare.gov site. You can feel the intensity of the salvage project, the apolitical results-oriented approach while the mood all around the project was hostile, the relentless.

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Respect The Key Influences To Your Startup Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

'Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. What does it take to create a positive workplace culture?

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Amazingly diverse industry we live in

deal architect

'When I restarted the Tech and my passion series this January (after over 60 guest columns in 2009) I expected the columns to feature more tech that is ubiquitous in our daily lives. What is even more impressive is the.

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Ticketbis, An Online Event Ticket Trading Platform

YoungUpstarts

'Have you ever bought tickets to an event but later couldn’t make it, and found it a challenge to find someone else to take them off you? You know, like those coveted Radiohead tickets for a concert in your town as part of a very limited tour, but something urgent cropped up at the last minute but it would be a shame if it was wasted? Sure, you could spam messages on your social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, or on classified ads sites such as Craiglist to find someone willi

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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One Of These Days, You May Not Be An Entrepreneur

Gust

'Image via Wikipedia. If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day ever comes for all these people, we will be overrun by startups. Yet I don’t lose any sleep over either of these possibilities. Most people procrastinate from time to time, but I suspect that the challenge here is somewhat deeper than that.

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Disengaged employees: What are they really thinking?

The Next Web

'David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. You can’t crack your employees’ heads open and look inside (well you can, but legal will probably advise against it) so how do you uncover what drives individual employees to work hard, stay focused and be more creative? Are they seeking more money, stock options, a pat on the back?

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How mobile games can make a global difference (and still be profitable)

The Next Web

'Oliver Miao is the CEO of Pixelberry Studios. Mobile game developers are always looking for ways to build strong relationships with their user bases, and rallying players around important social issues is a great way of doing so. This strategy has already seen great success in the PC and console gaming worlds; last year, game-centric organizations like Extra Life , Child’s Play and Humble Bundle each brought in millions of dollars in donations while raising awareness for children’s hospitals,

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Pay By Uber: Coming to Restaurants & Bars Soon?

Hunter Walker

'Square, PayPal, Google and others all seeking to be your new frictionless payment system, the one mobile wallet to rule them all. But I wonder if there isn’t a dark horse for the urban hospitality industry at least: Uber. They’ve got credit cards on file for a mobile, professional clientele and payments infrastructure to direct bill via Braintree (owned by PayPal).

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To accept funding or not? The tipping point for taking outside investment

The Next Web

'Clay Olivier is the CEO at Volusion, Inc. , where he guides and oversees the direction of the organization with a strategic vision and motivation for helping business owners succeed online. There are thousands of decisions to make when running a business – from branding to accounting and everything in-between, each choice can impact your bottom line.

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Money As A Motivator

Mike Michalowicz

'If I have said it once, I have said it a million times, money doesn’t motivate people. In fact, the only real way to use money as a motivator is to pay your people enough money so that money isn’t an issue for them. The post Money As A Motivator appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Geekdom Fund Invests in Three San Antonio Startups

SiliconHills

'Three new startups in San Antonio have received $25,000 cash investments each from the Geekdom Fund. The two-year-old fund aims to jumpstart the city’s startup community by providing seed-stage funding to tech startups. In February, the Geekdom Fund made investments in Nebula Technologies and Lightphile. Last November, the fund invested in Remote Garage.

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How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber and Airbnb Build Trust to Achieve Liquidity

firstround.com

'In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust with revenue flatlining at $200 a week. Since then, over 9 million people have used it to find temporary housing. Etsy was founded almost a decade ago, but doubled its valuation with its last two rounds of funding. The gradual but ultimately huge success of these entrants to the marketplace space has paved the way for Uber and Lyft’s breakout growth, and the explosion in startups with marketplace models: Postmates, Getaround, Taskrabbit, and more &m

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Sharing a Bit About My Exit

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'Breaking Business : Exits – What happens when you sell. In this episode of Breaking Business, Chris Sloan asks me about my experience exiting our business. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Sharing a Bit About My Exit appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: February 10th – March 2nd

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks (and a couple of blog-related tweets). Cheers, Scott. . Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “How big a factor is luck in startup success?

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The mentality required to be a successful entrepreneur

Jeff Hilimire

'In my post yesterday I referenced the similarities between comedians and entrepreneurs, particularly as it relates to the amount of time that has to be spent in order to be successful. In the podcast, You Made It Weird , where the host interviews Nate Bargatze , they talk about the process of fully committing to being a comedian and when, if ever, Nate thought about quitting.

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MVP Is Not The Smallest Collection Of Features You Can Deliver

Street Smart Product Manager

'As product people in the non-startup world familiarize themselves with Lean Startup concepts, there’s a lot of discussion and confusion about what is and isn’t an MVP. Worse, many execs and CEOs have latched on to the term without really understanding what truly constitutes an MVP — in effect, they use it as a buzzword, and as […].

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

'Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. She currently works for Twoodo and is helping out at FailConNL , embracing failure as a learning experience ( Amsterdam, March 4th ). As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why? Is it attitude or is it money?

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MVP Is Not The Smallest Collection Of Features You Can Deliver

Street Smart Product Manager

'As product people in the non-startup world familiarize themselves with Lean Startup concepts, there’s a lot of discussion and confusion about what is and isn’t an MVP. Worse, many execs and CEOs have latched on to the term without really understanding what truly constitutes an MVP — in effect, they use it as a buzzword, and as […].

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How to measure the ROI of your ongoing SEO efforts

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and a freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the Positionly blog. . Measuring the success of your search engine optimization efforts is important to ascertain whether your time, money and efforts are allocated effectively. SEO is one of the more common methods of driving relevant visitors to your website that convert into paying customers, since they are most likely interested in purchasing your products or servi

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Small Business and Startups: Tips for Reducing Refunds

crowdSPRING Blog

'How often does your business have an opportunity to increase bottom-line profitability, improve customer retention, and generate positive word-of-mouth with a zero-dollar investment in marketing or advertising? This huge opportunity is right under your nose and you probably don’t even know it. “What is it?” you ask. “Why is my nose so large?

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How To Raise Money Like a Billionaire

Growthink Blog

'Even billionaires need to raise money. Take Donald Trump. Each time he launches a new real estate project, he raises outside money for it. Why? Because why should he only invest his own money? Rather, Trump and other billionaires understand the importance of leveraging other people’s money. So, what do billionaires like Donald Trump do to raise money?

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